Create Alias

This operation creates an alias for an existing collection. A collection can have multiple aliases, while an alias can be associated with only one collection.

POST

/v2/vectordb/aliases/create

Cluster Endpoint

The base URL for this API is in the following format:

https://${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}

📘Notes

• You need to fill in ${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT} with that of your Zilliz Cloud cluster.
• To get the endpoint, refer to On Zilliz Cloud Console or use the Describe Cluster V2 API to extract the values from the responses.

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT=""

Parameters

Authorizationstringheaderrequired

The authentication token should be an API key with appropriate privileges or a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password.

Example Value: Bearer {{TOKEN}}

Request Bodyapplication/json

collectionNamestringrequired

The name of the target collection to assign the created alias to.

aliasNamestringrequired

The alias of the collection.

export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/aliases/create" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "aliasName": "bob",
    "collectionName": "quick_setup"
}'

Responses200 - application/json

SUCCESS

A success response

codeinteger

Response code.

Example Value: 0

dataobject

Response payload which is an empty object.

FAILURE

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

SUCCESS

{
    "code": 0,
    "data": {}
}